Monday, April 06, 2009

I watched the latest episode of High Stakes Poker tonight and I have to say my stomach is a little sick. That Barry Greenstein and Durrrr hand was wild even though the money was in early. I won't ruin any more; but it is definitely worth the watch. Adding to the sickness is watching the continuing bad luck of Kid Poker. I guess he will back for the next session whereas most of the guys are leaving. As usual, it continues to be the best poker show on TV.

I played a hand with pocket sixes lately that brought up 3 points that I am working on or at least thinking about. Give me your thoughts. I already ran it by some poker buddies and got some varying answers.

I'm not going to hide my action. OK. Pot sized bet with two callers on a great flop for me. I had my raised typed in; but just called with the plan of raising any turn card (would think about it if a Heart came). The pretty lame reason as I look on it now, is I wanted to keep people in the hand and let them lead the turn.

Thoughts?

Turn: ($12.50) Qd (4 players)BB checks, UTG+1 bets $12.50, MP folds, Hero raises to $25 (min raise puts both guys all in), The other villain is the BB and he was a 18/6/2.5 guy

Question #3

OK, not the greatest card. UTG+1 is the 67/17 guy so I held to my plan.

Thoughts?

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Congrats to Tar Heels. I really thought it would be a closer game. Truthfully, after a few minutes, I didn't even watch any more. I just fast forwarded on my DVR. If I had been betting, I would have taken the 7 or 8 points. I am glad to see NC win for Tyler Hansbrough's sake. With him being from Missouri, I was rooting for him.

5 comments:

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Q1: I usually limp there. No need to build a pot when you are likely to miss, and have several overs on the board.Q2: I like the call. A 2 or a 7 gives you the the likely nuts, and I would say there is a good chance you are behind after a psb and 2 callers. The range of the bb is really wide, but the two callers should tell you you may not be ahead w/ just a pair of 6's.Q3: Q should be a blank on this board with the action that has taken place. I think you are behind, but it's not that bad to get it in there. You are most likely live.

Heels dominated! The durrrr/Barry hand was sick just for the size of the pot, but I thought in terms of strategy his river bluff with 6-high or his valuetown trip vs. Eli's K-high were much more interesting-bruechips

I actually think I would have raised the flop just to narrow the field. The thing is, with pocket sixes, I think I would have raised here... well, it's close. 22-55 I def would have, maybe 66-88 is ok to limp here. I don't know, very close. Either way, I would be raising flop but I guess turn is ok... it's just kinda awkward when like an A shows up on the turn because you end up turning your hand into a bluff when in reality, there's a good chance it's the best hand.